IN MEMORY OF LINDA MABALOT

Linda Mabalot was the executive director of Visual Communications- the nation's first Asian Pacific media arts center-for nearly two decades and was herself, a filmmaker and community activist. Since 1977, she had been a key contributor to VC's groundbreaking films and videos about Asian Pacific American history and culture. Most notably, she produced and directed Manong, one of the first documentaries about Pilipino Americans farm workers in the Central Valley. Among those featured in Manong was the late Philip Vera Cruz, legendary co-founder of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. Linda believed whole heartedly that through media, we could help relieve social ills and correct gross injustices by educating and sharing different points of view. Linda will be profoundly missed, not only by Asian Pacific Americans in the media arts, but by many people of diverse ethnicities whom she touched in her short, but prolific life.